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A set of Hamiltonians that are not self-adjoint but have the spectrum of the harmonic oscillator is studied. The eigenvectors of these operators and those of their Hermitian conjugates form a bi-orthogonal system that provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Oscar Rosas-Ortiz , Kevin Zelaya

Despite the intrinsic coupling between electric and magnetic fields in random stationary light, their polarization properties are not mutually determined. A complete second-order description thus necessitates a joint electromagnetic…

Describing open quantum systems in terms of effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonians gives rise to non-unitary time evolution. In this paper, we study the impact of non-unitary dynamics on the emergent hydrodynamics in quantum systems with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-10 Dylan E. Mahoney , Jonas Richter

In honour of Detlef D\"urr, we report on a mathematical rigorous computation of the electric vacuum polarisation current and extract the well-known expression for the second order perturbation. Intermediate steps in the presented…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Dirk - André Deckert , Franz Merkl , Markus Nöth

For the model Hamiltonian describing the electron-nuclear dynamics of a quantum dot, we obtained an exact expression for the limiting nuclear polarization as a function of the number of groups of equivalent nuclei. It is shown that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-10 G. G. Kozlov

Non-Hermitian systems have recently attracted significant attention in photonics. One of the hallmarks of these systems is the possibility of realizing asymmetric mode switching and omnipolarizer action through the dynamic encirclement of…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-22 J. B. Khurgin , Y. Sebbag , E. Edrei , R. Zektzer , K. Shastri , U. Levy , F. Monticone

In one dimension, the exponential position operators introduced in a theory of polarization are identified with the twisting operators appearing in the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis argument, and their finite-size expectation values $z_L$ measure the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Masaaki Nakamura , Johannes Voit

Two-dimensional materials are a highly tunable platform for studying the momentum space topology of the electronic wavefunctions and real space topology in terms of skyrmions, merons, and vortices of an order parameter. Such textures for…

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In general, the energy spectrum of a non-Hermitian system turns out to be complex, which is not so satisfactory since the time evolution of eigenstates with complex eigenvalues is either exponentially growing or decaying. Here we provide a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-07 Haoyan Chen , Yi Zhang

Advances in topological photonics and non-Hermitian optics have drastically changed our perception on how interdisciplinary concepts may empower unprecedented applications. Bridging the two areas could uncover the reciprocity between…

Usually duality process keeps energy spectrum invariant. In this paper, we provide a duality, which keeps entanglement spectrum invariant, in order to diagnose quantum entanglement of non-Hermitian non-interacting fermionic systems. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Li-Mei Chen , Shuai A. Chen , Peng Ye

In this work we intend to study a class of time-dependent quantum systems with non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, particularly those whose Hermitian counterpart are important for the comprehension of posed problems in quantum optics and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. de Souza Dutra , M. B. Hott , V. G. C. S dos Santos

We show that a diagonalizable (non-Hermitian) Hamiltonian H is pseudo-Hermitian if and only if it has an antilinear symmetry, i.e., a symmetry generated by an invertible antilinear operator. This implies that the eigenvalues of H are real…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Ali Mostafazadeh

We study ballistic transport through semiconductor quantum point contact systems under different confinement geometries and applied fields. In particular, we investigate how the {\em lateral} spin-orbit coupling, introduced by asymmetric…

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We show that a two-level non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with constant off-diagonal exchange elements can be analyzed exactly when the underlying exceptional point is perfectly encircled in the complex plane. The state evolution of this system is…

We present a systematic study of statistical mechanics for non-Hermitian quantum systems. Our work reveals that the stability of a non-Hermitian system necessitates the existence of a single path-dependent conserved quantity, which, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-04 Kui Cao , Su-Peng Kou

Critical phase transitions contain a variety of deep and universal physics, and are intimately tied to thermodynamic quantities through scaling relations. Yet, these notions are challenged in the context of non-Hermiticity, where spatial or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-06 R. Arouca , C. H. Lee , C. Morais Smith

We consider different properties of small open quantum systems coupled to an environment and described by a non-Hermitian Hamilton operator. Of special interest is the non-analytical behavior of the eigenvalues in the vicinity of singular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Hichem Eleuch , Ingrid Rotter

In study of pseudo(quasi)-hermitian operators, the key role is played by the positive-definite metric operator. It enables physical interpretation of the considered systems. In the article, we study the pseudo-hermitian systems with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-17 Vit Jakubsky

We consider a two-parameter non hermitean quantum-mechanical hamiltonian that is invariant under the combined effects of parity and time reversal transformation. Numerical investigation shows that for some values of the potential parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. M. Fernandez , R. Guardiola , J. Ros , M. Znojil